Israel is
strong, mighty, invincible. Israel has truckloads of nuclear weapons.
Israel has cluster bombs, DIME munitions, white phosphorous, and other
illegal or experimental weapons with which it can kill and maim as many
Palestinian civilians as it likes.

Israel is especially proficient at mass-murdering children. Israel
constantly reminds us that it can exercise the "Samson option" and drop
nuclear weapons on the capitals of Europe and the Middle East. Israel
has even colonized America, the world's most powerful nation, exacting
billions of dollars a year in tribute. What a stunningly prepotent
entity! The world stands in awe of the great and terrible Israel.

That, at least, is what the Israelis would have us believe.

But it is just an illusion. Israel is not behaving like a confidently
powerful nation. Instead, it is desperately lashing out like a cornered
rat in the final throes of rabies.